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“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
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Alexis’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alexis’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,915 books
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77 friends
1,220 books
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27 friends
683 books
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79 friends
14 books
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25 friends
637 books
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10 friends
242 books
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21 friends
1,608 books
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61 friends
338 books
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113 friends
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